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  • Thumbnail for Arches National Park
    Double Arch The Windows The Organ, a sandstone tower in the Courthouse Towers area The Three Gossips Broken Arch Double O Arch Navajo Arch Skyline Arch Partition...
    44 KB (3,935 words) - 02:28, 27 May 2024
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    The Gateway Arch is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Clad in stainless steel and built in the form of a weighted...
    152 KB (15,954 words) - 16:15, 26 May 2024
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    a self-supporting arched form, usually of stone or brick, serving to cover a space with a ceiling or roof. As in building an arch, a temporary support...
    45 KB (6,276 words) - 08:56, 25 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Azadi Tower
    main vault is a Sassanian arch representing the classical era, while the broken arch above it is a popular medieval form of arch representing the post-classical...
    13 KB (1,328 words) - 03:06, 14 April 2024
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    served during World War II, he did not see any battle duty because of a broken arch bone suffered in a high-school football injury. After the war, he attended...
    35 KB (3,370 words) - 18:16, 24 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arch Linux
    Arch Linux (/ɑːrtʃ/) is an independently developed x86-64 general-purpose Linux distribution that strives to provide the latest stable versions of most...
    56 KB (4,881 words) - 04:05, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Primavera (Botticelli)
    flower-gatherer, she returns the viewer's gaze. The trees behind her form a broken arch to draw the eye. In the air above her, a blindfolded Cupid aims his bow...
    28 KB (3,558 words) - 14:04, 23 May 2024
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    Pediment (redirect from Broken Pediment)
    "curved", or "arch" pediment, where the straight line triangle of the cornice is replaced by a curve making a segment of a circle, the broken pediment where...
    29 KB (3,309 words) - 22:09, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Graceland
    columns are matched by pilasters on the front facade. The doorway has a broken arched pediment, full entablature, and engaged columns while its transom and...
    54 KB (6,380 words) - 04:03, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Geomantic figures
    the shoulders and lungs. Latin for "Sorrow". The figure resembles a broken arch or a stake being driven into the ground. It is bad in most cases and...
    25 KB (3,392 words) - 18:42, 12 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Jean Cotereel
    the first completely detached from the wall, the second supporting the broken arch: this entry strikingly reminds of the general appearance of the pillars...
    5 KB (700 words) - 11:59, 9 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for Henry Adams
    University Press. Index entry for Henry Brooks Adams at Poets' Corner The Broken Arch, an unpublished work by Lorrie Tussman exploring the theme of unity in...
    50 KB (6,454 words) - 18:28, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Buland Darwaza
    below the springing of the arch. Two pieces have been broken off from the left hand side and eight from the right. The arch has three actual openings bordered...
    6 KB (765 words) - 04:15, 11 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arch A. Moore Jr.
    Arch Alfred Moore Jr. (April 16, 1923 – January 7, 2015) was an American lawyer and Republican politician from West Virginia. He began his political career...
    31 KB (3,115 words) - 00:10, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for London Bridge Is Falling Down
    that two players hold hands and make an arch with their arms while the others pass through in single file. The "arch" is then lowered at the song's end to...
    19 KB (2,302 words) - 23:39, 12 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bonaparte Visiting the Plague Victims of Jaffa
    a gallery full of the sick. To the right, under two arcades, under a broken arch, is Napoleon, accompanied by his officers, touching the armpit bubo presented...
    12 KB (1,475 words) - 03:42, 5 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arch of Septimius Severus (Leptis Magna)
    attic frieze, the arch is relatively uniform on all sides. Framed by eight Corinthian columns that support a broken pediment, the arch is ornate featuring...
    9 KB (1,041 words) - 16:39, 8 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Quinta das Lágrimas
    the spring identified by António de Vasconcelos. Its entry features a broken arch, probably from the fourteenth century. The name Quinta das Lágrimas ("quinta"...
    4 KB (574 words) - 14:26, 8 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Nationality Rooms
    carved with arabesques flanking the two entrance doorways, and support broken-arch pediments surmounted by carved polychromed crests of the two oldest German...
    132 KB (13,957 words) - 16:50, 6 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Belém Tower
    archways open to the main cloister in the north and south, while six broken arches stretch along the eastern and western parts of the cloister, interspersed...
    36 KB (4,050 words) - 20:42, 12 May 2024
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